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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned its parliamentary candidates to desist from making utterances that could jeopardize the party’s image since the candidature of such persons could be withdrawn.

According to the NDC, any elected person must know that they are not official candidates of the party yet “until the General Secretary signs them off and the Electoral Commission sends out notices of polls to that effect.”
 
In a statement signed by the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho, he said, “any NDC person who has won primaries, and goes against the accepted or approved rules of engagement, and abuses the sensibilities of the party via their actions or utterances, shall have his or her candidature withdrawn.” 

The statement follows the revelation by the former Deputy Minister of Gender and Social Protection and  NDC MP for Gomoa Central, Rachel Appoh, who confessed  to paying money to have people endorse President John Mahama in the party’s recently held primaries.

Later in an interview on  Citi Eyewitness News, Koko Anyhido asked the parliamentary candidates to desist from making such “reckless utterances.”

“Between now and next year when the General Secretary has to do that endorsement and the EC has to  accept you, if people have won primaries and so they want go on a reckless binge and make reckless comments, the party has every right to withdraw their candidature. And I state that emphatically as a party executive. Let them continue to make reckless statements, and we shall have the unpleasant duty of withdrawing their candidature,” he added.

On pressure from the NPP for Appoh to be investigated, Koku Anyidoho said “somebody has made a statement, if the NPP wants to go after her, let them do that; but they can’t go after the party. Besides, let them take the fat log in their eyes before they come for the spec in the NDC’s eyes.”